Woman receives bullet wound in downtown Alliance

An 18-year-old woman suffered a superficial bullet wound during what police describe as a street riot early Sunday morning in the 100 block of E. Main Street.

The incident occurred at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday outside what police say is a downtown-area dance club called Ambitions Lounge at 144 E. Main St.

The victim was standing outside when she was struck in her head by the bullet. The woman, a Plain Township resident, was treated and released at Alliance Community Hospital.

“One of the doctors was able to dig it out and turn it over to us,” police Lt. John Jenkins said. “There was no doubt it was a bullet. We don’t think she was shot directly at. We think it ricocheted. The shooter was quite a distance away. I would say a couple hundred feet.”

Police went to the scene when they were notified of a large fight.

Witnesses identified some individuals in a vehicle as the party involved in the shooting. Police stopped the vehicle near N. Arch Avenue and Prospect Street.

Police cited five young men with underage possession or consumption of alcoholic beverage. Four of those men live in the Canton area and the fifth lives in the Massillon area.